A man in Georgia found a check from Enterprise, Ala., on a road at his farm just hours after a killer tornado hit the Alabama town – more than 100 miles away.

Jack Short, 77, said the $3.88 check was cashed in 1970 and appears to be a payment to a gas utility.

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Two men survived a grisly attempt at suicide by circular saw, Atlanta police said yesterday.

One man cut off both arms, and the other sawed off one before their apartment manager called cops in time to save their lives.

The men, 40 and 41, reportedly left a suicide note.

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A shepherd in Germany had his entire flock of sheep stolen – then was amazed to find them back in the field the next day.

Gunther Manninger, 37, called police after his sheep were stolen near the city of Aachen.

“I had a sleepless night worrying about them, and could not believe my eyes when I went to the field the next day to see they had all been returned,” he said.

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A house in Western Australia is being built entirely from recycled wine bottles.

Peter Little says he’ll need around 13,500 bottles filled with water to build the walls of the house, which he says will insulate the home and save energy.

The environmentalist has spent 30 years developing eco-friendly building methods, and says this one has potential for Australia’s hotter regions.

“Water is probably . . . one of the miracle building materials of this century, which nobody is using,” he said.

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Any of these titles would be one for the books.

England’s annual contest for oddest book title has begun, with such contenders as “How Green Were the Nazis?” “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America” and “Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan” in the running.

Last year’s winner was “People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead: How They Attach Themselves to Unsuspecting Bystanders and What to Do About It.”